Lietuvių kalbos instituto kronika. 1998

LITHUANIAN LANGUAGES INSTITUTO CHRONICLE 1998 Structure There 7 were sections: Great "Dictionary of Lithuanian Language" (head — doc. Dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas), General language dictionaries (formed 1998 11 16, Head Dr. — Gertrude Naktiniené), Vardyno (manager — habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė), Grammar (head of — prof. Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas), Language culture (manager dr. — Pranas Knyūkšta), Terminology (manager — dr. Kazimieras History of Linguistics History of Linguistics ir (manager — dr. Kazys Morquina); The publishing group (Head) — Stanisława Stanisławska). Director of the Institute prof. — Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas. Deputy Directors Dr. — Kazys Morkūnas (for scientific affairs), Kęstutis Jurkūnas (for general affairs). Scientific secretary — dr. Artūras Judžentis (until October), 31 Irena Andriukaitienė (as of Novembe2 r). 1998 m. at the end of The Institute 140 employed iš jų 105 staff, researchers: doctors (37 of science 3 professors, doctors of science, 5 doctors of science, 5 doctors). 24 From September 15 d. į Joint research funded by the Institute VDU ir LKI PhD programme in philology in the field of humanities accepted: Jurga Girčienė, Alma Ragauskaitė, Algis Rubinas, Jolita Urbanavičienė (total number of doctoral 20 students). The main activities of the Institute are as follows, as determined by Decree No. 825 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 02.07.1998: 1. Research on lexicology, lexicography and grammatical structure of Lithuanian language; 2. Studies of the history of the Lithuanian language, ir dialectology, language relations; 3. Research on the functioning of Lithuanian language in society and terminology. Decree of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania 1998 04 14 No. 457 Together with Vytautas Magnus University, the Institute has been granted the right to establish a doctoral ti program for ir five years. By Decree No. 900 of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania of 20 July 1998, the Institute together with the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore was granted the right to confer the degree of habilitation for five years. The most important decisions of the Institute Council Chairman of the Council Prof. — Habil. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, Vice-Chairman —habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė, secretary — dr. Gertrude Nightingale. 250 Iš Total occurrences 6 Council meetings. January 28 d. at the 1) meeting: the direction of the Institute’s activities 2) was discussed in the context of the 3) Common Lithuanian Dictionary; the following publications are approved for printing: Nijolė Sližiene. Dictionary of Lithuanian Verb Conjugation. II(1); Zita Šimėnaitė. Phraseology of Lithuanian Language, Literature 1956-1997: Index; approved in 4) this composition 1998 Attestation Commission: Chairperson — habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližienė, members: habil. Dr. Saulius Ambrazas, doc. Dr. Angel Kaulakienė, dr. Pranas Kniūkšta, Marija Razmukaitė, Zita Šimėnaitė, dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris; approved 5) United States LKI ir Chairman of the VDU ir doctoral habilitation committee habil. Dr. Simas King. March 5 d. meeting: 1) approved the Institute's scientific activities 1997 m. report and plan for 1998; 2) the candidate for correspondent members of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences was decided to be prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauska3) s; approved for printing Institute ir University of Wisconsin-Madison Press. Words to Kazimierz Eigmin; 4) to the joint VDU and LKI doctoral and habilitation commission instead of habil. dr. Nijolė Sližienė included doc. dr. Juozas Karaciejus; 5) it was decided to propose to the Directorate to determine the amounts of awards, allowances and support provided to the Institute’s employees, taking into account the situation ir The financial capabilities of the Institute. 1) It was decided to form a section of the Institute of General Language Dictionary; 2) the decision of the Attestation Commission to certify Dr. Laimutis Bilkis, assistant of the Names Section, as a senior research associate for five years was approved; 3) the following publications were approved for printing: Laima Grumadienė, Vida Žilinskienė. Frequently used dictionary of the current written Lithuanian language (in alphabetical order); Jonas Kruopas. Selected writings; 4) the approved budgets of the Institute- ’s publishing work carried out under individual contracts; 5) approved: the composition of the joint LKI and VDU doctoral commission (habil. dr. Simas Karaliūnas (chairman- ), Prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Ambrazas (Deputy Chairman), Dr. Rūta Marcinkevičienė (Secretary), Dr. Artūras Judžentis, Prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Kaminskas, Prof. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Prof. Dr. Albertas Rosinas, Prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius); Competition Committee for Heads of Departments (Dr. Kazys Gaivenis, Dr. Artūras Judžentis, Dr. Nijolė Sližienė); Rules of Evelina Kolupailaite Masiokienes Scholarship; 6) it was agreed to supplement the editorial boards of the Institute- ’s continuing publications. 1) elected as heads of sections: General language dictionaries — Dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė, History of language and dialectology — Dr. Vytautas Žukauskas. "Kazys Morkūnas, Vardyno — habil. Dr. Vitalija Maciejauskienė; 2) approved the publication Issues of Lithuanian Linguistics 39; 3) approved: the composition of the joint LKI and LLTI habilitation commission (prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Ambrazas, Prof. Dr. Kazys Grigas, Prof. Dr. Vytautas Kubilius, Prof. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, Prof. Dr. Leonardas Sauka, habil. dr. Nijolė Sližienė, habil. dr. Vytautas Vanagas); The Admission Committee for Doctoral Students of the Institute (prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Ambrazas (chairman- ), Dr. Artūras Judžentis, Prof. habil. dr. Albertas Rosinas, prof. 251 Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, prof. Habil. Dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius); clarify 4) doctoral students Onos Termini for completion of doctoral studies of Aleknavičienė, Jolanta Gelumbeckaitė, Vitos Pranskūnaitės; 5) the composition of the committee for Zita Šimėnaitė’s external doctoral studies has been changed; 6) Dr. Edmundas Trumpa, proposed as a candidate for Evelina Kolupailaite Masiokienės one-time scholarship. 1) approved the decisions of the Attestation Commission, the doctoral committees of newly accepted doctoral students; 2) approved the following printed publications of the Institute: Office Language Tips. Revised and supplemented edition; Language Advice Bulletin 5; Terminology 5; Sofija Kėzytė. Bibliography (by Zita Šimėnaitė, edited by Kazys Morkūnas); 3) it was decided to nominate Dr. Aloizas Vidugiris of the highest degree and Dr. Daiva Murmulaitytė as candidates for state scholarships for young scientists; 4) Irena Andriukaitienė has been confirmed as Scientific Secretary; 5) approved changes to the editorial boards of the Institute’s publications: instead of doc. dr. Aldonas Pupkis added Prof. Habil. Dr. Vitas Labutis; Prof. habil. dr. Axel Holvoet; Prof. habil. dr. Valentina Skujinia; 6) approved the general part of the list of recipients to whom abstracts of dissertations defended at the Institute are sent. 1) the basis and principles for the preparation of the “Common Lithuanian Language Dictionary” were approved; 2) approved by doc. dr. Vytautas Vitkauskas habilitation committee, revised title of habilitation thesis —“Morphonomic phenomena of Lithuanian dialects and their fluctuation”; 3) the following publications have been approved for printing: Lithuanian Linguistics Issues 40, Language Culture 71, Language Advice Information Bulletin 6. "Bilkis, Laimutis- ". A summary of the doctoral dissertation. Humanities, philology, Baltic languages (H 591). —V. : University of California Press, 1998. —22 p. —100 ex. Grumadienė, Laima, Žilinskienė, Vida. The common dictionary of the present written Lithuanian language (in alphabetical order). —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. ]-kla, 1998. — XXXVI, 474 p. —250 ex. Homo sum. Lyrics for Kazimieras Eigminas /composed by: Klaudijus Driskius, Artūras Judžentis, Venantas Mačiekus; edited by Kostas Aleksynas, Artūras Judžentis. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. 1-kla, 1998. —297 p. —1000 ex. Jonas Kruopas and contemporary Lithuanian terminology (Program of the Scientific Seminar and Theses of the Presentations, Vilnius, June 24, 1998) /compiled and edited by Stasys Keinys. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. 1-kla, 1998. —16 p. —150 ex. 252 Kruopas, Jonas. Selected papers / consisted of: Stasys Keinys, Kazys Morkūnas, Algirdas Sabaliauskas. — V.: Publications ir of the Institute of Science Encyclopedias, 1998. — 555 p., il. [8] sheet. — 500 exp. Language Culture / red. Col. : Vytautas Ambrazas, Kazimieras Gaivenis, Pranas Kniūkšta (at. red. ), Vitas Labutis, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Rita Miliūnaitė, Gertrūda Naktinienė; made up sp. ir prepared by Albina Batavia. — V.: Lithuanik. an inst. I-cla, 1998. — Sas. 71. — 124 p. — 1500 exp. Language Advice Newsletter July 4. 1996 m. December — ed. / Rita Miliūnaitė, sp. prepared by Janina Vileišis. — V.: Publications ir of the Institute of Science Encyclopedias, 1998. — 62 p. — 500 exp. Language Advice Newsletter January 5. 1997 m. June ed. — / Rita Miliūnaitė, sp. prepared by Janina Vileišis. — V.: Publications ir of the Institute of Science Encyclopedias, 1998. — 41 p. — 500 exp. Language Advice Newsletter July 6. 1997 m. December — ed. / Rita Miliūnaitė, sp. prepared by Janina Vileišis. — V.: Publications ir of the Institute of Science Encyclopedias, 1998. — 50 p. — 500 exp. Office language tips / Lithuanik. an inst. ; prepared by P. It's a joke. — Revised and supplemented edition. —V: Institute of Science and Encyclopedias, 1998. — 339 [1] p. — 5000 exp. Lithuanian language: researchers and studies: commemorating the 150th anniversary of Kazimieras Jaunius's birth and 90th anniversary of his death (thesis of the conference of the Lithuanian Language Institute and Vilnius Pedagogical University, 22-23 October 1998) /composed by Kazys Morkūnas. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. I-kla, 1998. —40 p. —150 ex. Lithuanian Linguistics. T. 39 /red. Col. : Kazys Morkūnas (editor), Vytautas Ambrazas (deputy editor), Aina Blinkena, Vincentas Drotvinas, Axel Holvoet, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Gertrūda Naktinienė, Bonifacas Stundžia, Zigmas Zinkevičius; made up of: Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Kazys Morkūnas, Algirdas Sabaliauskas. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. l-kla, 1998. — 275 p. — 500 exp. Lithuanian Linguistics. T. 40 /red. Col. : Kazys Morkūnas (editor), Vytautas Ambrazas (deputy editor), Aina Blinkena, Vincentas Drotvinas, Axel Holvoet, Vitalija Maciejauskienė, Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Gertrūda Naktinienė, Bonifacas Stundžia, Zigmas Zinkevičius; composed of: Daiva Atkočaitytė, Rima Bacevičiūtė, Vilija Lazauskaitė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Kazys Morkūnas, Edmundas Trumpa. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. I-kla, 1998. —256 p. —500 ex. Razmukaitė, Marija. "Lietuvos priesagainiai oikonimai: Abstract of the doctoral dissertation". Humanities, philology, onomastics (H 370). —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. I-kla, 1998. —22 p. —100 ex. Sližiienė, Nijolė. Dictionary of Lithuanian Verb Conjugation. II (1) N-R. —V. : University of California Press, 1998. —325 p. —1000 ex. Šimėnaitė, Zita. Phraseology of the Lithuanian language. 1956-1977 /red. Jonas Paulauskas. —V. : Lithuanian k. inst. l-kla, 1998. —31 p. —300 ex. 253 Terminology / Red. Col. : Antanas Buračas, Kazimieras Gaivenis (at. red. ), Angelė Kaulakienė, Jonas Klimavičius (at. red. fig.), Valentina Skujinia, Algirdas Smilgevičius. — V.: Lithuanik. an inst. I-cla, 1998. — Sas. 5.—159 p. — 500 exp. Adler, Adela. Functional grammar of the Lithuanian language. —V. : Institute of Science and Technology, 1998. — 416 p. — 2000 exp. Valiulytė, Elena. Syntactic synonyms of Lithuanian language: expression ir of the cause of place, time. —V. : University of California Press, 1998. —427,[1] p. — ex. 1000 Vidugiris, Aloyzas. Dictionary of the English Language /Ed. red. Danguolė Mikulėnienė. —V. : University of California Press, 1998. —846 [1] p. — ex. 800 Funding for the publication was provided by the Ministry of Education and Science, the State Lithuanian Language Commission of the Seimas of the Republic of mo ir Lithuania 1996-2005 under the State Language Use Education Year Programme. Computer books (first versions of CDs): Lithuanian dialects. Multimedia dictionary (part 1). 1998. Project implementers: Danguolė Mikulėnienė, Kazys Morkūnas, Aloyzas Vidugiris, Daiva Atkočaitytė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Edmundas Trumpa (LKI), Laimutis Telksnys, Kęstutis Juškevičius, Evaldas Ožeraitis (MII), Stasys Gutautas, Ignas Miniotas (Lithuanian Folk Art Museum). The work was funded by UNESCO. Lithuanian language dialects. Chrestomatija. 1998. Project managers: Audra Zavadzkaitė, Asta Leskauskaitė, Edmundas Trumpa (LKI), Evaldas Ožeraitis (MII). The work was funded by the State ir Research Foundation. Other publications prepared by the Institute staff: Kniūkšta, Pranas, Lyberis, Antanas. English-Lithuanian dictionary of spelling and pronunciation. —6th ed. —K. : Šviesa, 1998. —367 p. —10000 ex. Lithuanian language guide /Bronius Dobrovolskis, Pranas Kniūkšta, Antanė Kučinskaitė, Aldona Paulauskienė, Asta Ryklienė, Bonifacas Stundžia, Danutė Tarvydaitė; composed by Pranas Kniūkšta. - K. : Šviesa, 1998. —543 p. —10000 ex. English-Russian dictionary /Irena Ermanytė, Ona Kažukauskaitė, Jonas Paulauskas, Joana Pribušauskaitė, Janina Žiemytė. —the 2nd patais. and supplement. leid. —K. : Šviesa, 1998. —437 p. —4000 ex. 68 scientific articles (13 in foreign journals) and 113 popular science articles have been published. mo Printed 40 conference theses. 254 The Department of Dialectology of the History of ir Language of the Scientific Expedition organized three expeditions: from June 24 to July 5, Dr. A. A. Kavaliauskas and students of Vilnius Pedagogical University collected dialectological data in the Daukšiai area of Marijampolė district. Laima Grumadienė (manager), Vita Frantskūnaitė; July 7-19, 2009: Daiva Atkočaitytė (leader) and students of Vilnius Pedagogical University collected data from dialectological questionnaires in the Viduklė area of Raseinių district; On 22-31 July 2016, Ona Aleknavičienė, Asta Leskauskaitė (leader), Rima Bacevičiūtė, Edmundas Trumpa collected dialect material in the Kučiūnai area of Lazdijai district. Various language and dialect data were also collected in Biržai (dr. Gertrūda Naktinienė), Griškabūdis (Vilija Sakalauskienė), Ignalina (Algis Rubinas), Kabeliai, Malkava (Asta Žūkaitė), Kučiūnai, Veisiejai (Vilija Lazauskaitė), Šakiai (Rima Bacevičiūtė), Švėkšnos (Adelė Judeikienė), Veiviržėnai (dr. Irena Ermanytė) neighborhoods. Several trips to Belarus: Vidmantas Kuprevičius and Asta Žūkaitė collected words for the academic Lithuanian language dictionary in the Apso area; Dr. Kazys Garšva recorded local Lithuanian language data in the Wrocław district; Nijolė Tuomienė studied the dialect of Lithuanians living in the Varenavos area; Dr. Kazys Morkūnas, Edmundas Trumpa, Dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris were interested in Zietela’s speech. In total, the staff of the Department of the Great Dictionary of Lithuanian Language collected 2160 words, colleagues from the Department of Language History and Dialectology — about 5000 units of dialect data, recorded 50 hours of dialect texts. Conferences, seminars On 11-12 February, the State Lithuanian Language Commission and the Department of Regional Problems and National Minorities organized a seminar on State Language and Integration (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). Danguolė Mikulėnienė (State language status de jure and de facto: problems of its implementation and management), Asta Ryklienė (Language culture works of the State language use and education programme). On March 10-12, at the 27th Scientific Methodological Conference of Teachers and Postgraduate Students of Higher Education Institutions in St. Petersburg, organized by Professor Leonardas Gercenbergas and Postgraduate Student Aleksejus Andronovas, the Baltic Studies Section was attended by the following Institute linguists: Asta Leskauskaitė (Depalatalization of pre-vowels and front-row vocalism in South-West Highland dialects), Edmundas Trumpa (Reflexes of *tj, *dj of the Zietelos schnekta compounds and the possibility of dzūkavimas), Dr. Artūras Judzentis (Composition of compound sentences in Lithuanian grammar). 255 In April, the 24 d. Centre of Dialectology of the Faculty of ir Humanities of Šiauliai University organized a seminar dedicated to Aldona Jonaitytė’s 70th anniversary. The jubilee was ir congratulated on the seminar by dr. ir Kazimieras Garšva (Northern Lithuanian Latvians, ir other borrowed common words), Vilija Lazauskaitė (About the ir jų presentation of the significance of the dialects in DLKŽ), dr. Kazys Morkūnas (Study of Lithuanian dialects: history ir and present), doc. Dr. "Vytautas Vitkauskas (Tarmių sąjunga?)- ". The seminar was attended by ir The jubilee was also congratulated by Prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas, dr. Aloyzas Vidugiris. May 20—22 d. At an international conference in Budapest Link Towards European Terminology presented a presentation Pecularities ir the evolution of Lithuanian physics terminology of of Lithuanian physics terminology) skaitė dr. Angel Skeletal. May 28 d. The Department of Language Culture of the Institute held a discussion seminar on Foreign Media in Vilnius City Hall. The seminar was led by vo Jurga Girčienė ir Asta Shark. The discussion was ir į attended by dr. Angel Kaulakienė, Habil. Dr. Nijolė Sližiienė, doc. Dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė ir Dr. Pranas It's a joke. of June 24 d. Jono In the scientific seminar dedicated to Kruopa’s 90th anniversary Jonas The present ir Lithuanian terminology lectures were read by prof. Habil. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas (Language specialist Jonas "Dr. Krupas". Kazimieras Gaivenis (J. "Terminology", doc. Dr. Stasys Keinys (J. "Terminology" (PDF). dr. Angel Kaulakienė (J. A thorough — advocate ir of consistent directional terminology in physics), PhD student Albina Auksoriūtė (Laurynas Ivinskis dictionaries), Dr. Jonas Klimavičius (Thread, thread, yarn; spin, twist, cast, weave). The theses of the seminar reports are published in a separate publication. of August 17-21 d. At the summer academy for young Baltic scholars Philologia Baltika’98, organized by the Baltic Institute at the University of Greifswald, Dr. Laimutis Bilkis (Lithuanian Helonyms Research), Vytautas Kardelis (On one case of adaptation of Slavisms), Gina Kavaliūnaitė (Problems of preparing the computer version of the manuscript of Chylinski’s New Testament translation). of August 28-29 d. Habil. Dr. Simas Karaliūnas XII At the International Slavist Congress in Krakow, he read a report on the Iš problem of the ir formation of Belarusian Slavic ethnonyms. October 3-4 d. Loreta Vaicekauskienė participated in a seminar for Danish language teachers in Scandinavia and the Baltic States at the University of Copenhagen. į In Lithuania ir Denmark. On 8-12 October, at the invitation of the Linguistic Society of Milan, Prof. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas participated in the international congress “Kalbotyra in the second half of the 20th century” and read the presentation “Neue Richtungen in der baltishen historischen Sprachwissenschaft- ”. Seventeen papers were presented at the conference “New language phenomena and their evaluation- ”, organized by the Department of Language Culture of the 256 Institute and the Department of Lithuanian Language of Vilnius University on 9 October. Seven of them are by researchers of the Institute: Jurga Girčienės New foreign words equivalents — verb new words, Dr. Angelė Kaulakienė True and pronoun terminology innovations, Dr. Pranas Kniūkštas The verb and verb meaning of the word, Dr. Rita Miliūnaitė New language phenomena: natural and artificial selection, Asta Ryklienė Unchangeable words in contemporary Lithuanian language, Loreta Vaicekauskienė Evaluation of foreign words: analysis of the attitude of language users and Ramunė Vaskelaitytė Internal substitute in contemporary publicistics. In addition, the Institute’s linguists had to chair meetings: the first one — dr. Angelei Kaulakienei and Dr. Pranui Kniūkštai, the second — Astai Ryklienei (friend of Prof. habil. dr. Vitas Labutis), the third — Jurgai Girčienei (friend of Prof. habil. dr. Kazimieras Župerka). The conference theses are published in a separate book, and the extended reports are planned to be included in the volume Lithuanian Linguistics Issues, which is being compiled by the Language Culture Section. On October 22-23, the Institute together with Vilnius Pedagogical University organized the conference Lithuanian language: researchers and research to mark the 150th anniversary of Kazimieras Jaunius’ birth and 90th anniversary of his death. The following researchers of the Institute read their papers at the conference: Dr. Gintautas Akelaitis (Syntax in K. Jaunius’s “Grammar of the Lithuanian Language”- ), Dr. Kazimieras Garšva (The “murmuring vowels” of North-Western Panevėžys: from K. Jaunius to A. Girdenis), Prof. habil. dr. Axel Holvoet (Lithuanian dative cum infinitive and Latvian infinitive relative sentences- ), habil. dr. Saulius Ambrazas (The most important differences in the construction of nouns in Lithuanian and Latvian), Audra Ivanauskienė (The hierarchy of noun conjugation types by M. Daukša Postila), Evija Lipartė (The meaning of the form laukan and possible alternatives in Lithuanian dialects), lrena Andriukaitienė (Some peculiarities of the expression of color in comparative compounds), doc. dr. Juozas Karaciejus (Again on the interpretation of the dialectal facts of Wolfenbüttel Postille), doc. dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (On the development of the pronunciation of the suffixes -iškas, -a in adjectives), Daiva Atkočaitytė (On the diphthongation of the diphthong in Viduklė dialect), Vilija Lazauskaitė (On the pronunciation of the two-syllable o-kamieniy nouns in the southern Highland dialect), Rima Bacevičiūtė (On the peculiarities of the lowland short vowels in Lukšių dialect), Dr. Laima Grumadienė (International words in the “Frequently used dictionary of the current written Lithuanian language”, 1997). Guests from Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Ukraine participated in the conference and presented their papers. The thesis of the conference is published in a separate publication. On November 6, the Institute’s researchers participated in the international conference “Jono Kazlauskas Day: Historical Grammar Subjects” at Vilnius University. Prof. habil. dr. Axel Holvoet read the presentation Some features of the Lithuanian and Latvian nonverbal kinds and kinds with object nominative. On November 19, the State Commission for the Lithuanian Language at the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania held a seminar entitled Language Management: Tradition and Present, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the restoration of the state language status. The reports were read by Asta Ryklienė (Facts and figures about the State language use and education program 1996-2005). 257 mėn.), Vilija Lazauskaitė (Perspectives of the State Programme for the Use and Education of the Lithuanian Language 1996-2005), doc. dr. Danguolė Mikulėnienė (Lessons of the decade of language revival), Dr. Rita Miliūnaitė (Temporary and spreading innovations), Jurga Girčienė (New foreignness: variability and possibility of choice), Dr. Pranas Kniūkšta (Names of company units), Doc. Laima Grumadienė (Prevention of language errors in radio speech). At the scientific conference Sūduva — in the creation of the Lithuanian state, held in Marijampole on December 17, Prof. Dr. Algirdas Sabaliauskas read a presentation on Sūduva and Lithuanian common language. On December 18, 2018, at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, doc. dr. Juozas Karaciejus read a presentation on the linguistic features of Merkelis Petkevičius’ Catechism. The event was dedicated to the 400th anniversary of this book. From 8 October 1997 to 31 July 1998, Evija Liparte, a doctoral student of the Institute, was on an internship at the Institute of English Studies of the University of Leipzig with Professor Susan Olsen. From 1 February to 5 July Gina Kavaliūnaitė studied at the Vrije University of Amsterdam with a scholarship from the Dutch Ministry of Education. He attended old and modern Dutch literature and language lectures, passed the 17th century Dutch language exam. On April 1st and June 1st, Ramunė Vaskelaitė, who won a scholarship from the Italian Government in the competition of the Department of Science and Studies, spent an internship at the University of Perugia. On April 1st and June 30th Vytautas Kardelis spent an internship at the University of Münster, where he gave lectures on Lithuanian dialectology to Baltic students. On April 1st and June 30th Loreta Vaicekauskienė spent an internship at the University of Copenhagen with a scholarship to support doctoral students from the Baltic countries. On 16-17 April 2008, at the international symposium Balticum 98, organized by the Institute of Baltic Studies of Greifswald University. Politik —Wirtschaft —Kultur was attended by Dr. Artūras Judžentis. On August 17-21, PhD student Jolanta Gaivenytė participated in the 15th Summer School of Terminology, which was held in Vienna. The participants attended lectures on terminology standardization and terminology work management, learned how to work with the computerized terminology database “Multiterm”. October 1-10 Prof. Dr. Vytautas Ambrazas trained in Italy at the invitation of the University of Parma, he was interested in researching and publishing ancient Lithuanian language monuments. On 2-7 November Vid Garliauskas worked in the library of the Copernicus University of Toruń, where he got acquainted with the Crusader archives. 258